This section of the web site of the National Center
for Tobacco-Free Older Persons of The Center for Social
Gerontology (click on our Home Page below for more information about
TCSG) contains regularly updated information on what is happening in
states regarding the almost $250 billion the tobacco industry must pay to
the states over the next 25 years as a result of the settlements they have
signed to resolve Medicaid lawsuits filed by the states. The payment schedule is also on our web site. The
information included focuses mostly on how the tobacco settlement funds
are being directed toward programs for two major purposes: aging
programs and tobacco control programs. Immediately below, we
present highlights, some with links to news articles, which include a
limited number of major stories/events; this is followed by state-by-state
updates. We encourage users to email
or fax (734 665-2071) information to us to be added to this site, either
to update or correct information we have posted.

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See Highlights for NCTFOP Press Release on Use of Settlement
Funds for Aging & Tobacco Control; See Highlights for
announcement of TCSG's new National Center for Tobacco-Free Older
Persons; See Highlights RE smoking costs to Medicare.

STATES IN WHICH SETTLEMENT FUNDS HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED IN 2001
FOR AGING or TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMS: (SEE BELOW FOR SPECIFICS
OF WHAT EACH STATE HAS DONE):

AGING: Alabama - $60.3 million for the Seniors' Safety Net Trust
Fund; Arkansas - $5 million of settlement funds, matched with $13 million
of federal Medicaid funds, for a total of $18 million for a new
prescription drug program for elders; California: City of San Jose - $4.5
million for Senior Services; also Sacramento County - $65,000 for legal
services for elders; Delaware - $6,635,400 of which $5,150,400 is
for the prescription drug program, and $1,485,000 for SSI and Medicaid for
elders and the disabled; Florida - $30.3 for a prescription drug program, $26.7
million for home and community based long term care and $4 million for Medicaid
long-term care; Georgia - an indeterminate, but substantial
millions of dollars for in-home and related services; Michigan - $45 million
for a senior prescription drug program; Missouri - for FY'02, an estimated $50 to $100
million of settlement funds for a prescription drug program for elders, and possibly
some portion of $7.2 million to expand Medicaid services for elders and the disabled,
plus for FY'01, $127 million for the prescription drug
assistance program for elders;

New Jersey - $50 million
for the Senior Gold Pharmaceutical Assistance Program, $20 million for ElderCare
Intiatives, and $12 million for nursing homes spousal income; Pennsylvania - $73
million, with $45 million for in-home services & $28 million for
prescription drugs (in this and future years, 13% of total settlement
funds are to go for in-home services and 8% for prescription drugs for
elders).

TOBACCO CONTROL:Arkansas - $18 million
annually; California: City of San Jose - $2.8
million; Delaware - $5,450,000 for FY2002; Florida - $39.1 million for FY2002;
Georgia - over $5 million; Idaho -
$50 million for FY2002; Illinois - $50 million; Indiana - $35
million, plus $30
million from last year, with the total $65 million to be spent over the
next 2 fiscal years; Kentucky - $5 million for FY2002 and $5.5
million for FY2003; Missouri - $22.1 million; New Jersey - $32 million for FY2002;
New Mexico - $5 million; Pennsylvania - $42 million (in this and future
years, 12% of total settlement funds are to go for this
purpose); Rhode Island - $4 million for FY2002; South Dakota - maybe
$800,000 from interest on first year settlement funds (this is simply a part of the
$4.2 million in general revenue
funds appropriated for FY2001/02).

STATES IN WHICH SETTLEMENT FUNDS HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED IN 2000
FOR AGING or TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMS: (SEE BELOW FOR SPECIFICS
OF WHAT EACH STATE HAS DONE):

AGING: California: City of San Jose - $2.5 million for Senior
Services; Colorado - 1% of settlement funds, or about $1 million
annually, for health needs of aging veterans; Delaware - $7.5 million for
prescription drugs for elders and $1.5 million for in-home services for
elders under the Medicaid waiver program, which should be matched by about
$2 million of federal funds, for FY'01; Georgia - $8 million in
settlement funds, plus about $5.9 million in federal matching funds, plus
over $3 million in new state funds due to advocacy for the settlement
funds for FY'01; Illinois - $35 million in FY'01 for prescription drug
assistance for elders, plus $1.8 million for senior health
services; Indiana - $20 million in FY'01 for prescription drugs
for elders; Iowa - about half of $1.5 million in FY'01 going to counties
for home care for elders; Maine - $10 million for FY'01 for prescription
drugs for elders; Michigan - over $61 million for FY'01, plus about half
of the $6 million going to Community Foundations for programs for children
and elders; Nebraska - at least $130,000 for a senior nursing
clinic; Nevada - $450,000 for FY'01 and 02, plus 30% of the overall
settlement funds to go for prescription drugs and in-home care for elders;
New Jersey - $61 million in FY'01 for prescription drugs
and in-home care for elders; New York - for the EPIC prescription drug
program for elders -- $107 million in calendar year 2000, plus a $55.4
million expansion in EPIC starting Oct. 1, 2000, plus $164 million in
2001, plus $189 million in 2002, and $324 million in 2003; Ohio - $12
million over next 12 years for prescription drugs for elders, with about $1 million for FY'01; Oklahoma
- $36.2 million in FY'01 largely for health care services, including
nursing home care, for elders; South Carolina - $20 million for
prescription drug assistance for elders, and possibly millions more for
senior services for FY'01.

TOBACCO CONTROL: Alaska - $1.4 million for
FY'01; California: San Francisco - $1 million; California: City of San
Jose - $2.5 million; Colorado - 15% annually, or about $15 million in
FY'01, of the total settlement funds; Delaware - $3 million for
FY'01; Georgia - $15.8 million for FY'01; Illinois - $29.5 million in
FY'01; Indiana - $35 million for FY'01; Kansas - $500,00 for next fiscal
year; Iowa - $9.3 million for FY'01; Kentucky - about $5.5 million for
next two years; Maine - $18.3 million, plus $3.5 million in matching
federal Medicaid funds, for a total of $21.8 million; Maryland - $30
million annually for the next ten
years; Massachusetts - $12.1 million for FY'01; Nebraska - $7 million
annually for next 3 years; Nevada - $600,000 for FY'01; New Hampshire -
$3 million for FY'01; New Jersey - $30 million for FY'01; New Mexico -
$2.225 million for FY'01; New York state - $30 million for FY'00, and $40
million in each of following three years; New York: Dutchess County -
$500,000 for FY'01; New York: Livingston County - $45,000 for FY'01; New
York: Monroe County - $500,000 for FY'01; New York: Suffolk County - $1.5
million for FY'01; Ohio - about $1.25 billion over next 12 years,
including about $30 million for FY'01; Oklahoma - $2 million to be matched
with about $4.5 million in federal and other funds; South Carolina - $1.75
million; South Dakota - $800,000 for FY'01; Texas - about $9 million for
FY'01; Utah - $4 million in FY'01 and possibly another $2 million when
lawsuits over legal fees are resolved; Vermont - $6.65 million for
FY'01; Virginia - $11.8 million from last year's alloction of 10% of the
overall settlement funds; Washington - $15.5 million for FY'01; West
Virginia - $2 million.

STATES IN WHICH SETTLEMENT FUNDS WERE ALLOCATED IN 1999 FOR
AGING or TOBACCO CONTROL PROGRAMS: (SEE BELOW
FOR SPECIFICS OF WHAT EACH STATE HAS DONE):

AGING: Alabama - $2 million in FY'2000 for trust fund
for elderly services; Delaware - an estimated $2.7 million in
FY'2000 and $5.1 million in FY'2001 for a prescription drug program for
low-income elders; Florida - $1.7 billion Fund for elders & kids
with $17.3 million for elders in FY'2000; Maine - $5 million for use in
FY'2001; Massachusetts - $42 million for FY'2000; Michigan - $53 million
in FY'2000, plus about half the $6 million going to Community Foundations
for programs for children and elders; Nebraska - $0.5 million; Nevada -
30% of settlement payments annually equals $360 million over 25 years; New
Jersey - $19.2 million in FY'2000; Rhode Island - $3.4 million in
FY'2000; Vermont - $325,000 in FY'2000.

TOBACCO CONTROL: Alaska - $1.4 million for FY'2000; Florida -
$45 million in FY'2000; Hawaii - 25% of settlement total, or about $3.6
million in FY'2000 and about $10-12 million in future years; Maine - $3.5
million in FY'2001; Maryland - $21 million annually; Massachusetts - 1/4
of 30% of funds annually or about $22.8 million in FY'2000; Minnesota -
$489 million into endowments for tobacco prevention programs, with $17.7
million for FY'2000; Mississippi - a pilot program
for 1999 & 2000 was funded with $62 million ; Montana - $7 million for
biennium of FY'2000-01; Nevada - 10% of settlement funds annually or $120
million over 25 years; New Hampshire - $3 million per year; New Jersey -
$18.6 million in FY'2000; New York state - $37 million in FY'2000; New
York City - $13 million for FY'2000; North Dakota - some portion of 10% of
the funds set aside for health programs; Rhode Island - $1 million for
FY'2000; Texas - $200 million into an endowment, with interest of about
$10 million annually for tobacco prevention; Vermont - reserved $19.2
million for FY'2000; Virginia - 10% of settlement funds for tobacco
control and other health programs, with $11.8 million to go
for tobacco prevention in the coming year; Washington - $100 million for
tobacco control, but not clear how much for FY'2000 or future years out of
the $100 million; Wisconsin - $23.5 million for the biennium, with $2.3
million for FY'2000 and $21.2 million for FY'01; Wyoming - all settlement
funds in a trust, with some to be allocated in 2000 for tobacco
prevention.